A St. Paul student’s sister was arrested in connection with the assault of a teacher Wednesday after a year-end banquet for the Hazel Park Prep girls basketball team.

An argument over a bullying accusation led to a confrontation involving the teacher and the girl’s mother and sister around 6:30 p.m., police Sgt. Mike Ernster said.

The skirmish ended with cuts and bruises and the arrest of the 19-year-old sister on suspicion of fourth-degree assault, as well as warrants for terroristic threats and brawling.

However, the city attorney’s office Friday said they have declined to charge the sister.

Later Wednesday night, Ernster said, the student and her mother were waiting for a bus at the nearby Pappy’s restaurant when a teenage girl and an older woman entered and asked them about the confrontation at the school.

The girl and the older woman left Pappy’s, but the girl soon returned with a man who then punched the mother in the head and walked out. Police have not located that man.

Josh has written about St. Paul public schools and higher education for the Pioneer Press since 2014, 11 years after the paper first published his byline as a University of Minnesota intern. He did a two-year stint on city government and crime in Austin, Minn., and spent seven years in Sioux Falls, S.D. covering crime and education, as well as editing. Josh was good at baseball once. Now he plays tennis against old men.

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